Re: conffiles versus configuration files
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On 31 May 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Kai> /var/list/.bin/mimencap.local /var/list/.etc/archive.txt
> Kai> /var/list/.etc/help.txt /var/list/.etc/rc.archive
> Kai> /var/list/.etc/rc.custom /var/list/.etc/rc.main
> Kai> /var/list/.etc/rc.post /var/list/.etc/rc.request
> Kai> /var/list/.etc/rc.submit /var/list/.etc/subscribe.txt
> Kai> /var/list/.etc/unsubscribe.txt
>
> Manoj> What on earth are these files? If they are user
> Manoj> configurable, how come they are in hidden directories? Why
> Manoj> are they not in a subdir of /etc, with a symlink as needed?
> Manoj> This seems like a bug to me.
>
> Those are for `smartlist'. They are `procmailrc' files. I like them
> where they are, since they can be backed up as a set, separate from
> "/etc/".
They should be probably in /etc, to be FHS-compliant. This is already
reported as a bug (Bug #10044: smartlist does not follow FHS yet).
However, there is no procedure in dpkg to make it to compare md5sums from
/var/list/.etc in an old package with the md5sums of a new package having
the conffiles in /etc/smartlist.
This means that making a smartlist package which is *both* FHS compliant
and compatible with the previous release is going to be a little
bit "tricky", because just copying configuration files in the
preinst would be sub-optimal.
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